It had been a smooth late-July flight from Auckland, until the plane started its descent(下降；下坡) into Wellington. Then the bumps(颠簸；碰撞) and swaying began.
从奥克兰起飞，七月下旬的航班一路平稳，直到飞机开始下降进入惠灵顿时，颠簸和摇晃开始了。
“The more we went down, the rockier it got,”(“我们越往下飞，颠簸得越厉害，”) says Laura, a Wellington resident who wished to give her first name only. “There was one point where we must have got a horrible cross-wind(侧风) and it felt like the plane was about to flip over(翻转；翻倒). At that point, the entire flight screamed.”
“我们越往下飞，颠簸得越厉害，”劳拉说，她是一位惠灵顿居民，只愿透露名字。“有一刻我们肯定遇到了可怕的侧风，感觉飞机快要翻过去了。那一刻，整个航班的人都尖叫起来。”
“I genuinely felt like I was about to(即将；正要) die, which was pretty awful … and I had eaten a horrible burger before going on the plane – that all came back up(（食物）反胃吐出).”
“我真的觉得自己快要死了，那感觉太可怕了……而且上飞机前我吃了一个糟糕的汉堡——结果全吐了出来。”
‘You think about your life a little bit as it comes down’
“当它下降时，你会稍微思考一下人生”